An elderly Jew sits among tombstones labeled "Jewish
State," "Uganda," "Russian Duma," and
"Galveston," all of which were suggested solutions to
the "Jewish Question." From the time of the great upheavals
in Russia's Pale of Settlement, these proposals addressed the
problems of Jewish emancipation, lack of civil rights, and cultural
exclusion. The solutions included emigration to the West, attempts
to settle Jews in rural, agricultural areas such as Argentina,
Palestine and the United States, and the creation of a Jewish
polity in Uganda. Few of these plans, if any, were deemed successful.
The caption reads: "The Jew in the graveyard of his hopes."